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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

THURSDAY. FEB. "a. 1887.

The Scientific american is author
ity for the assertion that eight thous
and miles of new railroad were built
in the United States during the year
1886.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

UI CNN'
The most skilful horseshoer In town.
Prices always reasonable. Good stalls for
the accommodation of my customers.
Determined to do more work and better
work this year | solicit trial feeling coll
fdent can save you money and give salts
faction as to quality of work.
W. I'll. LEWIS,
Next to Currin's livery stable, Montgom-
cry street. feb. 81 l.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
BlackSnithing.

l have moved my shop
back to the rear part of
lot formerly occupied,
where | have more room.
and with the addition of
another forge and compe-
tent assistants, / am bet
ter than ever prepared to
do all work in my line,
such as shooting horses,
ironing hughes. wagons,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

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Bent County register., 1887-10-08

/ 7. y. sieury the owner of the fol-
lowing named ditch was in tow
Thursday, he will be here next Sat
urdav and if the people teke water
rights to warrant, the ditch will be
pu, through as proposed.
NmERrAs:-The BasKRrI Ditch
! Co, 30 called proposed 10 extend
their censl from Horse creek to the
Big Sandy creek IN township 30
range 46 Ben: county, Colorado, by
March lst, 1883, aud offer permanent
water rights TO land owners under
the proposed extension on the fol-
lowing terms to-wit:
Price of water ten dollars per acre
subject TO annual assessment of ten
cents per acre for maintenance and
operation. Terms of payment one
fifth cash. balance FIVE payments with
per cent. interest. woEK, the wa
ter purchasers may pay the first in
ttallment in work on the oanal at ec
per cubic yaad. The Canal compsny
will loan the purchaser $500 on each
improved 100 acres in addition to
the trst payment on the water canal
at 10 per cent. interest and per
cent. commission. The canal com
psny will consent where the purchss-
er contracts for ieo acres that the in
terest for the first year shall cover
payment for 40 acres, the second 100
acre. aud leo acres the third year,
crowded 1900 cash payment be made
ana no more water each year.
Therefore we the undersigned set
tiers and land owners under the pro
posed extension subsoribes for the
amount of water on the terms so pro-
posed set opposite our names.
Lamar Colorado Oct-6Lh, 1887,
Bent County register., 1887-10-08
For superintendent OF schools,
JOHN \. MURPHY.

The republican county conyeution
to nominate a ticket for county OFF
GERS, met at Las Anmas wednesday,
and Was called to order by DIR. Pull
lips Chairman of the county central
committee. On motion of the Lamar
delegation j. Z. willetts, of Lamar.
was chosen temporary Chairman, and
Frand Cradle, of Las Aninas, Secre-
tary, on taking his chair Mr. willctts
made on, of his characteristic srelch.
es on the duties of the republican
party. After the usual committees
were appointed recess was taken un-
til after dinner when the committee on
permanent, organization reported the
temporary officers for the officers Of
.tbe convention, adopted.
The convention was made up
of seventy-one representative men
of the county, the mriorits
being men who haYe been in
the county only year aud
having no personal interset further
than to place in nomination ticket
of good competent men and to ad-
vance the interest of the republican
party. The convention is pro-
nounced by all the gentlemen we
have met who were in attendance to
have been the most harmonious they
had ever witnessed. There Was 8
good deal earnest work done on be-
half of the different candidates, but
no bitterness of feeling followed de-
feat in any case. Lamar sent.
strong delegation to the convention
whose Influence and political tact
was recognized early in the day, and
we must say that each and every del
egata is worthy of compliment for
the able manner in which he repre-
sentcd this precinct. The ticket
placed in nomination will be found
at the head of our columns aud is
pronounced by all irrespective of
party to be q good one made up of
men in every way competent to fill
the respective positions for which
they have been chosen, and one that
every republican in the county can
vote feeling that he cast tirstclass
ticket.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08
WIDE, Bent Co, CoLo.

have thought 1t nothing but right
that / should let my friends and
peisnbors know of my whereabouts
with your permission through the
REGISTER. l am now located at the
new town OF Wilde, twenty-eight
miles syuth OF Lamar, the first town
and gateway TO all other towns south
of us. NJ. T.. Swift Is Co. of Lamar,
are not slow to Gee good thing and
have located general stock of mer-
chaudise hers that would be an hon
or to railroad town and having
been placed in charge of SAID stock
has been one of the reasons of nv
coming, and never have we received
such welcome or found as sanguine
class of people than are those who
have settled 10 and around Wilde.
A. N. York especially has been un-
firing in his efforts to do all be could
to please. All his faith is shown in
his fine residence erected a. a cost OF
$4,000. Such men can never fail,
there is no such word in their bright
lexicon. Wilde is also surrounded
by the most picturesque land in the
Bent land district. Tho Twin
Buttes, two miles to the east are Wis
tied daily from far and near and the
view from the top ia indeed grand
looking as far as the eye can reach
in every direction; then just little
to the south OF the Buttss Is the can
yons of beautiful sparkling Butte
creek To the northwest are the
cedar hills with the lovely green
branches mingling with the white
sandstone tswsing in the back ground
which for beauty can not be surpass-
ed.
Mrs. A. II. York and Mrs. B. F.
Do wning have collection of ores
and rocks of the fines. specimens
found in these hills that will repay
any passer by to stop and admire,
you will find welcome and gilt
tering display.
The Oldest letter among the new
should not be forgotten and his ranch
can not be matched in Eastern Colo
RADIO, for timber, water and fine grad.
ed stock. refer to Henry Kellogg,
who came to Colorado for his health
about eight years ago, he has only
regained his health bat has also
added wealth in his business of stock
growing. The new comers appreci-
ate the presence of Mr. Kellogg aud
family being with US.
Many fine claims are yet awaiting
the taking and making of fine farms.
Water is found in abundance and of
tine quality. The Town company
are now erecting wind pump and
tank, and in few days water will
be FREQ and plenty. The Town has
recently takon fine but quiet growth,
81 lots have been sold during the
past week without effort or advertis.
ing.
A good aud commodious livery
and feed barn is being erected by
Mr.. White that will be ready for
business this week. We have daily |
mail by the daily stsge, the Ferguson
line of which there are no better
equipped in Eastern Colorado, and it
is my belief and prediction that
Wilde is so located as TO insure its
becoming one of the permanent cen
ters Of population in this glorious
Eastern Colorado. Very truly,
\. III. RoGERs.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

Why the congregation OF St.
Louis church should rise last Sunday
when President and Mrs Cleveland
walked in, is something we can not
understand. If the congregation
had at that time knelt down to pray
n ray of light mere suggestion
would have some chance to enter our
bcfogcd brain.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

The next Excursion to Las Vegas
passes through Lamar the morning
of the Goth, aud those desirous of
seeing that country will have no bet
ter opportunity than to go on the
next excurtion.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

We congratulate Judge ID. M.
Frost editor of the Dodge City Globe
Live Stock Journal on the arrival the
second inst, at his house of a
daughter. This makes two heavy
and five light Frost in the family.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

Thomas Shean, a California ex-
curslonist, was run over and killed
by the cars at La Junta last Satur-
day.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

An Atchlson, Kansas, California
excursion went west yesterday morn
ing.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

Kansas has let go all holt on whis-
key and is getting up boom on su-
gar. Colorado takes little of both
in hers.
Bent County register., 1887-10-08

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Trinidad snd miles north of the end of No Mn Land and
the head of Goal hed
Colorado and Neutral Stiy Holmes City the line
Mulyaue Extension
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

effects upon climate, production, popuIa
ton, revenues, lumber product in quanti-
ties and value, etc. Next to the report of
Franklin B. Hough, made to Congress in
1877, this work stands foremost in the
amount of practical and historical informa-
ton presented.
The second volume is also from the De-
partment of State, and is a series of re-
ports from our agents abroad upon emigra-
ton from Europe to all countries, and
especially to the United States. 1t is ac-
companied by diagrams, tables, and plated
designs by which at a glance the drift of
emigration from 1920 TO and including
1885 is shown, and also its character, the
trades represented, ages, sexes, conditions,
etc, of the emigrants. 1t is the most ex-
haustive, interesting and instructive docu-
ment ever prepared upon this important
subject. The regret is that comparatively
so few will examine these books. Whoever
does so will rise from their perusal edited,
and with enlarged views, especially upon
the subject of immigration.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

ization of our mountains and foothill
slopes. and 10 encourage arboricuiture in
the valleys. The subject has been one of
earnest concern with the RECoRD-UNIoN
for sixteen years, and its efforts in all that
time have been warmly and constantly
directed toward educating the public mind
upon the question. In the present inter
est shown, and the assurance that forestry
will from this time forward command a
large share of attention in California, and
that the consideration Of the subject is
about to result in practical reform, ii finds
cause for congratulation. The press of the
State can do much to aid the progress of
the forestry movement The people are
being educated rapidly to the necessity OF
preservation of our wooded slopes, but
there is need for further dissemination of
information upon the subject, and the press
of the country must be the chief agency
to that end. AS Mr.. Abbott Kinney said
to the Fruit-growers' Convention, after
recltlng the facts concerning the evil and
certain effects of denuding the hills and
destroying forest growth:
II is by educating the people in these truths
OF the effects of excessive and unwise forest de-
struction that we must hope to save California
from the fate of Palestine. Palmyra, Baalbec,
Carthage, Babylon. Greece Spain, and in fact OF
| all the early seats of mans civilization. He
who, like myself has traversed these sometime
centers OF human prosperity and population
desolate wastes, the haunts of the hyena and
| the reptile, must feel that the time has come
| for this intelligent American people to fol
| low the lead of France, Germany, Austria and
| the civilized powers of the world in averting
| by timely measures, so great disaster to our
selves.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
CONCEALED WEAPONS.

THE Chicago Herald, in view of the
conflicts between the police on the day of
the execution of the Haymarket murder
ers and the hoodlums who went about the
city armed with pistols and dirks, urges
the passage of law to meet the evil of
carrying deadly weapons, il says:
No citizen should be allowed to carry deadly
weapon without giving proper bond, and ex-
posing the weapon to the view of ali men, so
that they might behold the deadly character of
his thoughts or guess the hazardous nature of
his business.
The laws Of Illinois and California pro-
hibit the carrying of concealed weapons,
but they are not enforced. The difficulty
of compelling obedience is great, but it is
evident that some means must be devised
to reach the evil. The right of the citi-
zen to bear arms does not include the Ii
cense to secretly arm, as is now so gener-
ally done. The lawless element is con-
stantly armed, and in difficulty always
proves to be provided with deadly weap-
ons, and uses them. The law-abiding citi-
zen is thus placed at fearful disadvantage
when in contact with the criminal and
rough classes. The coward arms and uses
his weapons on the least provocation the
outlaw considers 4 concealed deadly weapon
an essential part of his outfit, and THIS
our streets are paraded by classes of men
who put the lives Of the people in constant
jeopardy. The law proposed by the Her.
aid would be ineffective. In large part it
is now upon the statute books of most
States. 1t has been urged that the only
way of reaching the end desired is the re-
peal of the laws against carrying deadly
weapons, that the law-abiding may be
placed upon physical equality with the
lawless. But this is no remedy at all, and
would simply result in making the associa-
ton of men a matter of armed liberation.
The true method of procedure is to assid-
uously cultivate public sentiment up to the
point that will fortify the officers in arrest
ing violators of the law, and to make the
offense Of secretly arming carry with it the
certainty of visitation by grave and heavy
penalty
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
THE NOTE TAKERS

The Chicago Inter Ocean enters protest
| against the false impressions of American
| life spread abroad by superficial Observers
among both foreign and native writers. 1t
says truly that the strangest possible falsi-
| ties have grown into accepted facts through
the deductions Of note takers, who are in
capable of penetrating below the surface
to analyze motives. But the Inter-O Ocean
wastes its energy. Its protest will not
reach the class against which it is aimed.
nor be accepted by foreign readers in
proper spirit. Somehow, when the super
fetal "note taker" gets his crude ideas
and confused facts and false deductions
into book form they take on, in the eyes of
readers, a great deal more Importance than
if the author orally announced his views.
All that newspapers can say in protest will
have little counteracting effect If Euro
pean papers could be induced 10 give pub
Lefty to the expressions of American
Journals in criticisng these notes" some
good might be effected. But that is hope
less, since the average European newspa-
per is even more ignorant of America and
American society than the mote takers"
and are more inclined to accept the state
ments of the class complained of, on the
ground that they are more likely to be
impartial. Even Matthew Arnold failed
to understand American society and the
American system, yet what newspaper
writer can expect to refute Mr.. Arnold's
views in England? We can only hope for
an abatement of false estimates entertained
abroad of American life, by the corrective
of time, and possibly by the just home
authors who secure hearing abroad.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

transportation, he would sustain loss on
his granite, gravel and cobbles, and the
profits from his wheat and fuel would be
greatly iessened; that the county of Sacra-
mento, through its Board of Supervisors
mas entered into a CONTRACT with the other
ueiehoants to construct a bridge across
the sald river, and that said bridge, &C.
cordlng to plans and specifications
auopted, is TO be constructed without
a draw. and will, if constructed obstruct
the NAVIGATION OF said river, and Will pre-
neht plaihtlh from navigating said river
that IN pursuance to their contract the said
California Bridge Company have com
menced construction of said bridge gitbout
a oraw, SO that vessels cannot navigate said
rlVeri that said bridge will be constructed
SO 10" that when the river is nayipable
there will not be sufficient space between
the bottom of the bridge and water for
vessels to pass under; that no notice has
oeen gwen to the State Engineer where
such bridge was to be located, as required
by law; that said Engineer did not desig
hate ihe width OF draw to span such bridge
nor the length of spans necessary to hermit
full flow of the water; that plainiiff believes
SAID contract to be null and void, and that
sald bridge, if constructed, can be removed
Dy proceedings Instituted by the State of
california, and the same declared a
nuisance and an obstruction to said river.
thus entalling great loss 10 the county of
sacramento and the revenues thereof; that
SAID contract price of said bridge is over
S34 900.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays for an lniunc
ton prohibiting the County of Sacramento
and California Bridge Company, defendants
Tor proceeding any further with the corr
struction of said bridge and TO prohibit the
defendants from the construction of anv
bridge OF any character, across the American
river, without providing a draw so that
vessels can pass unobstructed 10 or down
said river, and for such other and further
relief as may be just and proper in the case,
and for damages and costs.
Taylor d Holl are the attorneys for the
petitioner. The case will come up for
hearing in Judge Armstrong; Court
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

In the main their values well suggest
themselves, and taken in connection with
the readers knowledge of conditions pre-
vailing in the nations of the world be-
tween 1920 and 1886, viii lead to many in
teresting deductions
One of the tables under examination dis
closes the fact that in the periods of de-
preston the proportion of emigrants repre-
scnting skilled labor increses largely, a
very natural result. AS the larger part of
the female emigrants have been classed as
without occupation" it is essential to
know the totals of this sex. These
are, since 1878: 1873, 1S401I; 1874,
124,114; 1875, S7,54S; 1876, $500; 1877,
1891; 1878, 52,2lo; 1879, G5,944; 1880,
1864; 1881, 25S,702; 1882, 29O,17S;
1888, 239, 459; 1884, 210,OS3; 1885, 1885,
964; 1886, 133, 499. Total, 2,O92,37O. The
report unfortunately does not give us the
footings of this class of emigrants to show
their occupations, but we ascertain them
to be: Professional, 2,56S; skilled, IS, 134 /;
not stated, 51,773; without occupation, l,
802, 005; miscellaneous, 207, 1872
The percentage of skilled labor sent to
Us from the several countries in 1886 may be
thus summarized: Germany 11.01, Hun
gary 4.S1, Italy GAL, Netherlands SIT,
Norway 1852, Portugal 1853, Russia 9.7S,
Spain 1882, Sweden $40, Switzerland
15.4o. Scotland 2629, Austria S47, Bel
GUM 20.30, Denmark 11.96, France 1882,
England 1923, Ireland 400. Since 1873
the percentage Of skilled laborerS among
emigrants has decreased except in the
cases of Spain, Switzerland, Germany,
Portugal, France, Belgium, Scotland and
England, the decrease in those instances
being slight.
In 1886 Germany sent us nearly as
many farmers as all other nations COM
bined, but of laborers Ireland exceeded
other nations in her emigration. Ger
many, England and Sweden were about
equal, and Norway, Russia, Austria
Italy and Hungary were least among
| the prominent countries in such con,
| tribution. These exhibits and com.
PARSONS might be continued at great
length. We have not adopted any order
for their presentation, but noted the fact
that have appeared to us most prominently
in the tables as revealed in the course Of ;
rapid examination. Enough has beer
synopsized, perhaps, toindicate the genera
interest attaching to the report referred to
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

IT is to be hoped that the prosecution of
the brutal Herr Most will not be pushed
to such an extent as to encourage the be-
lief that he is being punished for opinions
sake, For his breach of the peace, and
his attempt to incite riot he is amenable
to the ordinary laws for ruffians who dis
turb citizens. and threaten their property
with destruction. The penal codes of the
States are fully equal to the task of pro-
viding punishment for Anarchists Of all
shades who descend to criminal practices.
There is not and will not be need in this
land to enact laws to restrain speech. To
confine its freedom within the bounds of de-
cency, the law is already sufficient. 1t is
very evident that the purpose of Herr
Most and his followers is to invoke such
penalties as will enable them to pose as
martyrs to cause.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19


Ex-PREsIDENT Noah Porter Of Yale
announces that Webster's dictionary is I'M
dergoing thorough revision at tie hands
of fifty Of the best scholars Of the day. 1t
is needed work. The dictionary has been
for twelve years so far behind the growth
of the English language that rivals have
entered the field and put it to shame Its
definitions in great number of cises have
not kept pace with the expansion and
modification of the English language,
while its omissions of words good usage has
warranted has been deplorable fault. An
anglicizing of foreign words has been 60
ing on of which 'Webster's" editors have
seemed to be oblivous, and while spelling
has been steadily reforming itself the
standard lexicon of the country" has stub
bornly kept on in old paths. These, we
are told, are now to be departed from, and
the advances made in philology are to be
recognized, anglicized words in great num-
Der are to be introduced, and other ad-
vances will be consented to which the ed
itors of Webster have heretofore refused to
recognize.